Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 49 - County Commissions and County Buildings
Section 49.370 - Site for county building.

Effective - 28 Aug 2003
49.370. Site for county building. — 1. The county commission shall designate the place whereon to erect any county building, on any land belonging to such county, at the established seat of justice thereof. If there is no suitable ground belonging to said county within the limits of the original town known as the established seat of justice, the county commission shall select a proper piece of ground anywhere within the corporate limits of the town known as the county seat, and may purchase or receive by donation a lot or lots of ground for that purpose, and shall take a good and sufficient deed in fee simple for the same to the county, and shall make report to the circuit court at its next sitting.
2. The provisions of subsection 1 of this section notwithstanding, any county may acquire, own, erect, operate, manage, and maintain buildings and property outside the limits of the established seat of justice, so long as the buildings or property is located within the county.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13719, A.L. 1983 S.B. 219, A.L. 2003 H.B. 267 merged with S.B. 281)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12060; 1919 § 9460; 1909 § 3681

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Missouri Revised Statutes

Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government

Chapter 49 - County Commissions and County Buildings

Section 49.010 - County court to be known as county commission — membership of commission — two districts in each county.

Section 49.020 - Election — term of office — residence.

Section 49.050 - Commissioners to be commissioned by governor.

Section 49.060 - Vacancy, how certified or filled — inapplicability to constitutional charter counties.

Section 49.070 - Quorum.

Section 49.079 - County commission to appoint sewer supervisor — compensation and duties, how fixed (certain second class counties).

Section 49.082 - Compensation of certain county commissioners, may be reduced, vote required — training program, attendance required, when, expenses, compensation.

Section 49.093 - County department officers to inspect and inventory personal property used by department — additional inventory inspected by county clerk — report to be filed and signed by clerk (counties of the third and fourth classification).

Section 49.097 - Additional duties of county commissioners (second class counties).

Section 49.098 - Additional duties of county commissioners (second, third and fourth class counties).

Section 49.101 - Vacancies, interim county officials appointed, when — expiration.

Section 49.130 - Passports, processing of applications, commission may provide service, when — fees.

Section 49.140 - County commissioners prohibited from doing certain things.

Section 49.150 - Penalty for violating section 49.140.

Section 49.160 - Who shall hold meetings when majority of commissioners are absent.

Section 49.170 - Terms of commission, when held.

Section 49.180 - Special terms.

Section 49.190 - Notice for special term.

Section 49.200 - Adjourned terms.

Section 49.210 - County commission may award process.

Section 49.220 - Proceeds before county commission may be transferred to circuit court, when.

Section 49.225 - Stenographic record.

Section 49.230 - Appeals.

Section 49.260 - Settlements with county treasurers and other officers.

Section 49.264 - County commission may grant easements to watershed subdistricts.

Section 49.265 - County commission may authorize closing of county offices, when, procedure (second, third and fourth class counties).

Section 49.266 - County commission by orders or ordinance may regulate use of county property, traffic, and parking — burn bans.

Section 49.270 - County commission to control county property — to audit demands against county.

Section 49.272 - County counselor may impose fine for certain violations of rules, regulations or ordinances, amount. (Boone, Cass, Jasper, Jefferson, Greene, and Buchanan counties.)

Section 49.275 - County commission may provide transportation for county officers and employees (first class counties).

Section 49.276 - County commission may provide law enforcement vehicles (third and fourth class counties).

Section 49.278 - Governing body may provide certain benefits for county employees, procedure.

Section 49.280 - Ex officio commissioner to sell county lands — deeds by.

Section 49.285 - County not to own real estate in other counties, exceptions — sheriff's sale — restrained by circuit court, when.

Section 49.287 - County may lease property — procedures (certain first class counties).

Section 49.290 - Lands sold by the county — procedure to obtain deed.

Section 49.292 - Rejection of transfer of real property by donation or dedication authorized, when — proof and acknowledgment required.

Section 49.300 - County commission may institute condemnation proceedings — power of circuit court.

Section 49.303 - Disposition of garbage and refuse by constitutional charter county — plants, how financed.

Section 49.305 - Sites for courthouse, jail, may acquire — funds from which payment authorized.

Section 49.310 - County commission to erect and maintain courthouses, jails — issue bonds — certain counties authorized to maintain jails outside boundaries of county seat — courthouse with offices and court facilities, special rules.

Section 49.320 - County commission may order buildings erected.

Section 49.330 - Superintendent, appointment, compensation.

Section 49.370 - Site for county building.

Section 49.390 - Circuit court to examine title.

Section 49.400 - County commission to pay for building site, when.

Section 49.410 - Plan of building to be submitted.

Section 49.420 - Advertisement for bids — may let at private contract, when.

Section 49.430 - Bond of contractor.

Section 49.440 - Superintendent to supervise work and report progress.

Section 49.450 - Payments to contractor, when made.

Section 49.460 - Order of payment, when made.

Section 49.470 - County commission may alter and repair county buildings, when.

Section 49.480 - Insurance of courthouses and jails — disposition of proceeds.

Section 49.490 - Damages recoverable for injuring county property.

Section 49.500 - County contracts to be inquired into on petition.

Section 49.510 - County to provide and equip offices.

Section 49.520 - Acquisition, erection or expansion of county buildings authorized, when.

Section 49.525 - Issuance of bonds — ordinance required, contents.

Section 49.530 - Interest rate and maturity of bonds.

Section 49.535 - Bonds negotiable and tax free — method of sale — payable from revenue only.

Section 49.540 - Obligation of county for rent or charges, limits — right to use building.

Section 49.545 - Application of proceeds of bonds.

Section 49.550 - Lien on buildings and land — rights of bondholders.

Section 49.555 - Receiver on default in payment of bonds.

Section 49.560 - Revenues placed in special fund — use — rentals, rates and charges.

Section 49.565 - Surplus in fund, disposition of.

Section 49.570 - Additional bonds — refunding bonds.

Section 49.575 - Administration of buildings and income, obligation of bonds.

Section 49.580 - This method of acquisition additional, not exclusive.

Section 49.600 - National flood insurance program, adoption and rescission procedure — exemptions (certain second, third, fourth class counties).

Section 49.605 - Permits, authorized requirements for applicant.

Section 49.610 - Variances may be granted by county commission, when.

Section 49.615 - Judicial review of all final decisions, orders and actions, when.

Section 49.650 - Certain county ordinances and resolutions authorized relating to county property and affairs — submission to voters — certain restrictions for counties of the third classification.